Buffy-fronted Seedeater
Sporophila frontalis(Verreaux, JP, 1869)
English (US) Buffy-fronted Seedeater
The Buffy-fronted Seedeater (Sporophila frontalis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: eastern Paraguay to southeastern Brazil and northeastern ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Sporophila frontalis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Buffy-fronted Seedeater
- Described by
- (Verreaux, JP, 1869)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Callirhynchus frontalis
- Described by
- (Verreaux, JP, 1869)
- Type locality
- Cayenne; error, vicinity of Rio de Janeiro suggested by Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 173.
- Original description
- Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Bulletin 5, fasc.2 p.15 pl.1 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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